Im not recommending doing this and wouldnt do it personally…
But when you go inside the club after you pay the fee, theres cops inside the club that take your receipt from you and then mark your hand with a yellow highlighter.
All they do is draw a star or random design on your hand with highlighter.
The club is bring your own beer, you have to buy a red cup for $5 and fill it outside- cant bring full bottles inside. Regardless you can leave and come back for any reason. People go out for smoke breaks too.
A lot of their clientele is blue collar looking latino guys, younger college aged guys and ghetto looking guys. Im certain that at least some of these guys must be having a friend go inside the club, pay and get the highlighter mark, then the friends all make the same marking on their hands using their own highlighter.
The club always fills up to max occupancy by around 10:30pm or 11pm. Considering how easy it is to draw the same marking on your hand i would bet at least some people are defrauding the club and not paying entrance fees to go in.
A $30 entrance fee is also expensive. They should lower it down to $10, $15 or so. If they want to keep it at $30, they should at least get those different color sticky paper wristbands that they give out. They wont do this because those cost 50 cents or so each, which will easily add up to $50-$100 in costs daily, and 20k+ yearly. But they fail to understand it would prevent fraud. The wristbands could still be given to someone else but only one person could be in the club at any one time. So it would still cut down on much of the fraud and the only fraud cases would be if one friend pays, decides to leave the club and gives his wristband to a friend.
Having $30 entrance fees and being so cheap with these highlighters seems a bit absurd to me. Im thinking the club is so busy because people are frauding the system. Ive gone to bodyshop once and it was almost totally empty, cant remember what they did for entering the club.
The club could use different color highlighters rather than "generic yellow" each day of the week. That way guys would have to bring an assortment of highlighters with them which may be too much trouble and they wouldn't go to the club. OTOH, the club makes it easy to defraud the system because they may believe it's better to have more customers than fewer customers and customers who get in for "free" may be more likely to spend the $30 they didn't pay at the door on dances and tips.